Sentences with phrase «overwhelming majority supports»

While an overwhelming majority supports the goal of cutting immigration to «tens of thousands» a year, a mere 16 % think it likely that this goal will be achieved.

But Mark - Viverito has insisted that majority support, even overwhelming majority support, does not mean that a bill gets to become law.

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

The overwhelming majority supported ICEF Public Schools as the operator of the new Barack Obama Global Leadership Academy, as did the superintendent and his panel of experts.

Swanson: Just to make sure we weren't going somewhere that was seriously inconsistent with the wishes and desires of our membership, we put a quick poll in the field, literally the week between Christmas and New Year and came back with overwhelming majorities supporting making these changes, supporting these kinds of reforms with the caveat that there's collective bargaining and that the appropriate safeguards are put in place.

Rob K GMRB # still do not add up to an overwhelming majority supporting the BOD.

Not exact matches

The second bill that passed the House last night, also by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, is the Supporting America's Innovators Act of 2016 (H.R. 4854).

Despite a years - long political and economic deterioration and months of violence, Maduro has maintained about 20 % support among Venezuelans, but his constituent assembly has been rejected by an overwhelming majority of the country and drawn international rebuke.

Cancer Fund of America (CFA) and Cancer Support Services (CSS) claimed to help cancer patients — «but instead, spent the overwhelming majority of donations on their operators, families and friends, and fundraisers,» according to a statement from Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens.

The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.

The overwhelming majority of the middle - age to younger generations support gay marriage.

«Evolution, a foundational principle of modern biology, is supported by overwhelming scientific evidence and is accepted by the vast majority of scientists.

The church also voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the language about marriage in the church constitution to «two persons» from a «man and a woman,» according to More Light Presbyterians, a group that supports gay rights.

Whichever way you call it, the simple fact is that the overwhelming majority at Wembley will be supporting Spurs and the article said it was like a home game for us.

Whereas some vocal fans including Journalist Piers Morgan are vehemently opposed to Wenger, the majority of the fans still support him as do the overwhelming number of both the current and former Arsenal players.

JF - I believe the overwhelming majority now go IN SPITE OF WENGER and not BECAUSE OF HIM.We all know his time is up.The day can not come soon enough.But like me the Away support will still be there for the final few games.We follow our TEAM.Always will.Over Land and Sea (and Leicester).

As my followers on Facebook and blog are people (mostly women) who support breastfeeding to natural term, the overwhelming majority of the comments were not only supportive but many of them were understanding and in the same position as myself, breastfeeding a «huge» toddler.

After working as a childbirth educator and attending a couple hundred births (as a doula — labor assistant) in birth centers, homes and hospitals, I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of women intuitively gravitate to which location, type of support and «methodology» is best for themselves and their unborn babies to achieve a safe passage through the giving birth / delivering experience.

But we have heard from an overwhelming majority of you and your colleagues who are struggling with a myriad of challenges, frustrations and financial hurdles — members who support SNA's requests for commonsense flexibility under the most stringent regulations.

However, SNA's Board has heard from an overwhelming majority of members who have encountered a myriad of problems under some of USDA's regulations and support requests for flexibility under the most stringent requirements.

«We are not wavering in that commitment and we believe the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians support us in that commitment,» he said.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Also in the poll: An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support the SAFE Act along with proposed new gun control measures in the state, though they oppose the idea of arming school teachers.

But the overwhelming majority of Nigerian masses (and sizeable minority of elites) enthusiastically support Mr. President to give entrenched corruption a tough fight and stubbornly resist the desperate fight - back by corruption network.

The president has a chance to finally seize the initiative on an issue that an overwhelming majority of voters support him and are lining up against the GOP position of quietly defending Wall Street.

Unite's Policy Conference sent a very clear message to rebel Labour MPs yesterday by voting by an overwhelming majority to support a rule change to the Labour Party rulebook to reintroduce mandatory reselection of MPs before each general election.

An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers also supports strengthening prescription monitoring services, while 82 percent say doctors should be punished for overprescribing.

An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers also supports strengthening prescription monitoring services; 82 % say doctors should be punished for over prescribing.

And of those five per cent, the overwhelming majority see SSM as a reason to support, not oppose, a party.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of recent opinion polls show the Tories falling below even this low level of support: for example three - quarters of the polls taken since the Conservative Party conference in October give them less than 42 %.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.

No such majority is achieved and, despite extreme pressure from Washington, Cook stands firm and, with the overwhelming backing of his party in parliament, refuses to support the American action in Iraq.

After all, Corbyn was advocating a policy supported by the overwhelming majority of those it would affect.

«The fact of the matter is that this common sense legislation has the support of the overwhelming majority of Hudson Valley residents who understand that codifying the over 40 year old Roe v. Wade decision into state law should not be a controversial issue.

Free SHS is here to stay, because leadership is about choices, and I have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians support the choice that I have made.

According to him, leadership is about choices and that the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians support his choice of implementing the free SHS policy.

The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long - term, loving relationships whoever you love.»

An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers strongly support this bill — and so do I.»

So I think we would very much expect the overwhelming majority of Conservative MPs would be willing to support the private member's bill along the lines of the one published [yesterday].»

He's smashing the left in New York State and holding the overwhelming majority of Democratic support.

There is an overwhelming majority of business owners against the one proposed for Broadway and my opponent supports it.

Few have lawyers in the consumer credit cases filed in New York City, in rural, suburban and urban child support cases and «the overwhelming majority» of tenants in eviction cases in all four of the state's judicial districts, he said.

He will have won a majority of his Parliamentary colleagues and the wider membership, along with sufficient support from unions and other affiliates to secure not just victory but an overwhelming mandate.

With an overwhelming majority of Americans supporting legislation to keep Dreamers from being deported, Trump's immigration list is just one more way he is out of step.»

«The overwhelming majority of Americans support a pathway to citizenship for the nearly million Dreamers in this country, but today Senator Schumer has let us all down by failing to stand up for them,» said Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), in a statement.

But with the overwhelming majority of progressive Bronx leaders and the unified support of organized labor, Team Gustavo feels good about where we are,» the Rivera campaign told the Observer.

«An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support ride sharing and elected officials, small business owners, clergy members and law enforcement officials had been clamoring for the service for years,» Uber spokeswoman Alix Anfang said.

The motion was supported by an overwhelming majority, in which both party members and unions voted 70 % in favor of the motion.

The proposed legislation already has the support of the overwhelming majority of the city council.

With a tremendous amount of support for the bill, and with expectations that the legislation will pass with an overwhelming majority vote of the public, there are still a handful of individuals who oppose it, Buchwald said.